Woman lived for months with dead partner

[snopes]

A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl..._US-CORPSE.xml

[snopes]

Workers responding to neighbors' complaints of a bad smell coming from an apartment in western England discovered a body that lay decomposing on a couch for years while another resident lived there.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080209/D8UMIG8G0.html

[SmallTownKid]

Anyone else thinking of "A Rose for Emily?"

[stacnbake]

Originally Posted by SmallTownKid

Anyone else thinking of "A Rose for Emily?"

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the title.

[Cervus]

Ha! I was trying to think of the title of that story, and came up with Emily Rose...but I knew Faulkner didn't write about exorcism.

Originally Posted by SmallTownKid

Anyone else thinking of "A Rose for Emily?"

You are not the only one.

[llewtrah]

Originally Posted by snopes

A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl..._US-CORPSE.xml

Hah! That's nothing! Try living 8 years with a dead lodger. At least a dead lodger is quiet even if he's niffy.

Actually, the mind boggles at the 8 years case. The tenant apparently has mental illness issues and didn't know what to do (plus if he was sub-letting he had broken the terms of the leasev and might have been evicted), but it was a council flat and it seems no-one from the council went to do routine checks/maintenance on the place during that time .

I recall recently seeing an episode of Cold Case, Forensic Files, or one of those type shows (maybe it was Snapped). This lady killed her abbusive husband and left him in the back bedroom of their house. She closed up the room and told everyone that he had just moved away. She even started dating some other guy and he figured that the bad smell was just because she was a bad house keeper. Eventually people started getting suspicious and they finally searched the house and found his body. I can't remember how long it had been, but I'm pretty sure it was at least several months.

EDIT: Found the story. It was a year that she kept his body back there.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/taped/...ackground.html

Originally Posted by chelle

I recall recently seeing an episode of Cold Case, Forensic Files, or one of those type shows (maybe it was Snapped). This lady killed her abbusive husband and left him in the back bedroom of their house. She closed up the room and told everyone that he had just moved away. She even started dating some other guy and he figured that the bad smell was just because she was a bad house keeper. Eventually people started getting suspicious and they finally searched the house and found his body. I can't remember how long it had been, but I'm pretty sure it was at least several months.

EDIT: Found the story. It was a year that she kept his body back there.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/taped/...ackground.html

Dixie Shanahan. She later married the boyfriend if I rememeber correctly. Of course, living here in Iowa it was all over the news.

As a volunteer firefighter I've been in a few old people's houses and sometimes you cant tell if its the people or something decomposing. All they needed to do is hit the body up with some Old Spice and no one would think otherwise. lol

I also saw another show (Dr G maybe?) where this guy was running a funeral home and rather than actually burrying people, he was just stuffing them in closets & such all over his home.

(I like forensics/true life crime type shows)

[snopes]

An odor that persisted for a week in a room at a Red Roof Inn - and a guest's refusal of housekeeping services - roused the maid's suspicion.

So when the guest went to pay for his room, the cleaning crew went in. On the floor between the door and the bed lay a body. The body was that of the man's elderly wife, who had been dead for about a week and a half.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/03/elde...ake-hotel-room

[snopes]

Detroit police say they've found the partially mummified body of a woman in her 80s on the kitchen floor of a house where her mentally troubled sister was living.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...ster24-ON.html

[candy from strangers]

Wow. I had no idea shacking up with corpses was so trendy.

[nurple]

Originally Posted by candy from strangers

Wow. I had no idea shacking up with corpses was so trendy.

Oh, I love it! May I use that for a sig?

[Nonny Mouse]

Originally Posted by candy from strangers

Wow. I had no idea shacking up with corpses was so trendy.

Well, they don't party, they don't eat all your food, they don't mess up the bathroom.....

They're not so great at paying their share of the rent, though. They're kinda deadbeats that way....

Nonny

[candy from strangers]

Originally Posted by nurple

Oh, I love it! May I use that for a sig?

Of course, I'm honored

[candy from strangers]

Originally Posted by Nonny Mouse

Well, they don't party, they don't eat all your food, they don't mess up the bathroom.....

They're not so great at paying their share of the rent, though. They're kinda deadbeats that way....

Nonny

Good points

[nurple]

Originally Posted by candy from strangers

Of course, I'm honored

Thanks much!

[Banrion]

Originally Posted by Nonny Mouse

They're not so great at paying their share of the rent, though. They're kinda deadbeats that way....

Nonny

That depends, if the death is never reported to authorities, social security will continue to send checks.